DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997)

Re:DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) by gcb0 on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:19AM (#15384453)

and chromium, which should be renamed chrome beta, since a few years ago when all maintainers are Google employers, even went so far as rolling back all the privacy contributions such as options to disabled/disable 3rd party cookie and referrer. both of which are crucial aspects on how Google/doubleclick get paid by after showing you ads.

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Re:DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) by RasputinsBro on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:57PM (#15387893)

Could you give us more info about this?

I for one always run Chromium with third-party cookies disabled. Yesterday I went to try the new Firefox that everyone is going crazy about, and I couldn't find the option to disable third-party cookies.

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Re:DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) by gcb0 on Monday October 02, 2017 @08:12PM (#15389031)

Yeah, firefox after 56 is garbage on this front too.

but that is mostly trying to please sponsors, like google.

But do me a favour, try to find any setting, command line flag, developer setting, anything, to disable or limit referrer to the domain, on chromium/chrome. All three times i counted, the features were removed by google employees after added by outsider contributors. And 3rd party cookie is going the same way. Outside contributors add, google employees remove. Until everyone gives up and google has its way.

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Re:DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) by RasputinsBro on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:47AM (#15391715)

I don't agree. In Chromium at least the feature to disable third-party cookies is in a very obvious place:

Settings > Advanced > Privacy and security > Content settings > Cookies

Regarding referrer you may be right. However you can change it with extensions. And now that I think about it, the same is true for third-party cookies.

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Re:DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) by aibara on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:38PM (#15388872)

It's a bit obscure in Firefox 57 beta and newer. Open Preferences then click on Privacy & Security, then go to the "History" section. Select Firefox will "use custom settings for history" and you'll see the option to refuse third-party cookies.

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Re:DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) by gcb0 on Monday October 02, 2017 @08:16PM (#15389041)

Note that this is all a single screen. Just preferences > privacy. No extra navigation required.

It's is under the history sub-title, but you can see all the options in the screen at once. Not as hidden as in chrome.

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Re:DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (1997) by RasputinsBro on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:29PM (#15393622)

Under History? Ridiculous.

Thank you.

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